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empirearchives · 5 months

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Gown and train of Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte

(Bust of Napoleon and painting of Marie Louise in the background)

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vivelareine · 1 year

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A pair of footstools created for the salon de la maison du seigneur at the Hameau de La Reine, under Marie-Louise, in 1812. The seats were part of a seat including a sofa, two bergères, eight armchairs, twelve chairs and a fireplace screen. The footstools were set to be auctioned but it appears they have been preemptively taken off the block.

#19th century #french history #petit trianon #marie-louise #any extant furniture tends to get snapped up since it got so scattered & is rare #even if it's not the 18th century furniture... at least it's not the eugenie stuff #garish garish garish...

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joachimnapoleon · 1 year

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Between the spouses, a new honeymoon seems to begin. In truth, as Murat is obliged to leave immediately for Naples and Calabria where he is going to prepare the expedition to Sicily, as his wife must remain with the Emperor until the end of the holidays, it is an epistolary honeymoon, from a distance and through the exchange of continual letters. Nevertheless, the letters of Caroline leave no doubt about the reality of the reconciliation; the tone is entirely changed.

#Joachim Murat #Caroline Murat #Caroline Bonaparte #Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #Marie-Louise #blog #translations #letters #1810

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microcosme11 · 1 year

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Text is from a site called The World of the Habsburgs. Hilarious--Napoleon’s reputation as an excellent lover! Never heard that one before.

At first her Austrian entourage was allowed to accompany her, but once she reached the Bavarian border her last confidantes were forced to leave her. “I assure you, dearest Papa, that I am truly unhappy and cannot console myself,” she wrote to her father after the handover in Braunau. Yet the longer the journey went on, the better Marie Louise felt. Napoleon, who was an expert at seducing young women, sent her frequent love letters and presents, and she soon began to develop sympathetic feelings towards him. Napoleon himself was waiting impatiently for his bride in Compiègne, and when, after 14 days, she and her retinue finally neared the city he spontaneously rode out to meet them. He met the column as they changed horses at a post station and without further ado joined her in her carriage. Once she had recovered from her initial shock Marie Louise was impressed by her husband’s handsome appearance. Napoleon decided to cancel the arranged ceremony of welcome and to travel immediately to Compiègne with his bride, where he – in a complete breach of normal protocol – made her his wife that very night. Napoleon’s reputation as an excellent lover was obviously deserved when it came to Marie Louise. In the first letter she wrote to her father after the early wedding she said that all the doubt that she had felt just a short time before had been replaced with euphoria: Napoleon loved her dearly and she returned his love, wrote an obviously happy young wife.

Marie-Louise by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1810 (wikimedia commons)

#Napoleon's family #Marie-Louise #Habsburg

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tomoleary · 4 months

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Hergé “Tintin and Milou preparing for Christmas” Ink Drawing and Later Print

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“Snowy's original French name Milou—an abbreviation of Marie-Louise—is borrowed from the nickname of Hergé's first girlfriend, Marie-Louise Van Cutsem. Marie-Louise's father disapproved of Hergé's low social standing, and the young couple's relationship consequently deteriorated. Nevertheless, Hergé remained fond of Marie-Louise, and made her the namesake of Tintin's most trusted friend. The name Snowy was chosen for English-language translations not only because of the dog's colour, but also because it is a five-letter word that fits in the speech balloons.”

#hergé #Tintin and Milou preparing for Christmas #Marie-Louise #snowy

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thebestestwinner · 1 year

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Top two vote-getters will move on to the next round. See pinned post for all groups!

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celeb-8008s · 19 days

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Kaley Cuoco

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lascenizas · 1 year

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The Last Movie I Watched...

Marie-Louise (1944, Dir.: Leopold Lindtberg)

#marie-louise #i watched

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hollywoodcelebfans · 2 months

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#mary louise parker

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crushing-on-nico-di-angelo · 1 year

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2023

invitation, mary oliver // the unabridged journals, sylvia plath // happy xmas, john lennon // north country, mary oliver // i am running into a new year, lucille clifton // salt, nayyirah waheed // diaries of franz kafka // bird by bird, anne lamott // sunrise, louise glück

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mysharona1987 · 6 months

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#Books #gop #literature #democrats #republicans #marie louise gay #libraries #news #Banned books #book bans

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empirearchives · 1 month

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Marie Louise’s reaction to Napoleon’s death

“I am just now in great uncertainty. The Gazette of Piedmont has announced in such a positive manner the death of the Emperor Napoleon, that it is hardly possible to doubt it any longer. I confess I was extremely startled at it, though I have never had any deep feelings of any kind for him. I cannot forget that he is the father of my son and that, far from behaving badly to me, as every one believes, he always showed me every consideration—the only thing one can look for in a political marriage. I was therefore very grieved at it and, though one should be glad that he has ended his unhappy life in a Christian manner, I could still have wished him many more years of happiness and life—provided that it was far away from me. In the uncertainty about it I have settled myself at Sala, not wishing to go to the theater till I know something positive. My health has become so frail that I have felt this shock.”

— Marie Louise’s letter to Countess Victoire (1821)

Source: Compiled by Charles A. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together With Numerous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Characters of People and Their Rulers

Marie Louise, deeply upset at not being informed of the news by her family in Vienna:

“I confess that what gave me most sorrow, in these circumstances, was that I had not had any official news, nor any private, friendly letter from Vienna—the only way by which such could reach me in safety. I confess that I expected more interest and affection on that side, and it gave me a cruel blow by showing me how little one can count on all one’s own people, and this grief can only be cured by time.”

Source: Edith E. Cuthell, An Imperial Victim: Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, Empress of the French, Duchess of Parma

#Marie Louise #Marie-Louise #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Napoleon’s death #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #french empire #19th century #history #the death of Napoleon #Charles A. Shriner #Edith E. Cuthell #Napoleon’s wives #Napoleon’s wife #empress Marie Louise

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el-ladron · 7 days

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joachimnapoleon · 2 years

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Another letter from Caroline Murat to her husband. She is still in Paris while Napoleon is traveling with his new Empress; Caroline is not allowed to leave Paris and return to Naples until Napoleon gives her permission, so she’s stuck there at least until his return (she actually won’t be back in Naples until August). She has also learned that Napoleon has been in communication with Marie Caroline of Sicily (Marie-Louise’s maternal grandmother) and fears that negotiations might be concluded to safeguard Sicily for the Bourbons before Murat is able to begin his campaign to take it.

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Paris, 15 May (1810)

I've finally received a letter from you, and I needed it, because I've been truly anxious from your silence, but what pains me, is seeing you again delivered to a thousand worries, and you do not have a sorrow that I do not share doubly. You're wrong by the way, because the Emperor does much justice to all your feelings for him and he loves you well; if he doesn't respond to you, it is his great occupations that are the cause and it's the same reason that he still hasn't responded to the letter you wrote him on the subject of the troops. I spoke of it yesterday to the Minister of War who seemed to me pained to send you a decree that the Emperor had ordered him to make. Everyone counsels you to take Sicily, it is necessary and he absolutely needs it, because the Emperor will sacrifice much for the peace of Sicily, as well as borrowing money from all parts, do all that is needed for this, but lose no time in taking Sicily, because you could soon receive a counter-order, because negotiations are already being made.

I'm sending you this letter via D(...), there is nothing new, everyone is very upset that the Emperor doesn't come back to Paris, it is feared that he will go further, and if the fêtes are delayed, I will write him in order to leave, although I know it will upset him and it is perhaps necessary for our interests that I stay here.

I'm going to spend two days at Morfontaine with the Grand Duke, who charges me to tell you a thousand kind things. I'm just reading with sorrow that you have changed the name of the Tour de l'Annonciade to that of Joachim. It seems to me, my friend, that one should have a certain respect for all the old inscriptions and that it is an advertisement for future generations to let survive those that the reigning king did make, and that it is not needed to imitate the destructive peoples who don't respect anything of the country they've conquered and who give a new example of destruction. I see that in this instant, the Emperor is blamed, who erased all the letters found on the Louvre, and everywhere, in order to put there two N's.. it would have been greater to leave there the traces of the other dynasties, in order to give a great example of the respect that one owes to the ancient monuments. It's the opinion of everyone; I also give you mine from the great interest I bear you. Everything you do, I make my own, and that is why I don't want you to do something that cannot have general approbation. Moreover, this is a longer article than I wanted to make, but you know how much I love you, and for this reason also how much I love to be frank with you.

I warn you that poor Lorenzani is absolutely ruined by the judgment of the tribunal. I only have unhappy people around me, even all the young ladies from Sainte Marcellin are taken away from me, because all the nobles are ruined. Do you not think this is impolitic at the moment that you are going to take Sicily, because all the Sicilian nobles will defend themselves until the last moment out of fear of suffering the same injustices.

Farewell, my dear friend, I impatiently await the news that will tell me that you have commenced your enterprise.

Caroline

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From Lettres Et Documents Pour Servir À l'Histoire de Joachim Murat, Vol. 8.

#Caroline Murat #Caroline Bonaparte #Joachim Murat #Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #Napoleonic wars #Marie-Louise #Sicily #1810

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microcosme11 · 2 years

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